ABBREVIATIONS
a age | Dea deacon | m male; married; month
abt about | dec deceased | rec recorded
bef before | DT Direct Tax of 1798 | rem removed
bet between | dup duplicate entry | s son
bp baptized | Ens ensign | sr senior
bur buried | grandd granddaughter | unm unmarried
Capt Captain | grands grandson | USC United States Census of 1790
certif certificate | h husband; hour | w wife; week
ch child | inf infant | wid widow
chn children | int intention of marriage | widr widower
Co county | jr junior | y year
d daughter; day; died | Lt lieutenant |    

CHURCH RECORDS
CR1 Congregational Church
CR2 Baptist Church

CEMETERY RECORDS
GR1 Branch Cemetery
GR2 Chandler Hill Cemetery
GR3 North River Cemetery
GR4 Christian Hill Cemetery
GR5 Fulton Cemetery, Franklin Hill
GR6 Pennell Hill Cemetery
GR7 East Colrain Cemetery
GR8 Cemetery in pasture near Pickett and Elwell's, East Colrain
GR9 Farley burial ground, Catamount Hill

NEWSPAPER RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 Greenfield Gazette and Courier
PR2 Boston Transcript, issue of Feb. 5, 1930

PRIVATE RECORDS
(Bibles, Family Records, Etc.)
PR1 record of Colrain marriages communicated by George Sheldon of Deerfield to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898
PR2 family record in possession of William G. Hawks of Greenfield
PR3 genealogical notes culled from Vital Records of Leicester, Pelham, Palmer, Shelburne, Heath, and Charlemont, collected by W.O. Taylor and deposited in Arms Library, Shelburne Falls
PR4 Bible record in possession of Mrs. Albert Stetson
PR5 record in possession of Mrs. Lucy Cutler Kellogg of Greenfield
PR6 family record in possession of H.A. Abell of Rochester, NY
PR7 family record in possession of Miss Orie Lawrence Barrett of Bernardston
PR8 unpublished genealogy of Taylor family by W.O. Taylor
PR9 Bible record deposited in P.V.M.A., Deerfield
PR10 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Ward Genealogy
PR11 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Greenfield
PR12 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Heath
PR13 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Gill
PR14 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Sheldon's History of Deerfield
PR15 Colrain records from "Pen Pictures of Early Settlers of the Wilson Family" by B.F. Severance preserved among W.D. Taylor's Collections
PR16 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in "Churches and Ministers of Franklin County"
PR17 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in "Connecticut Valley History"
PR18 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Deerfield
PR19 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in "Biographical Review"
PR20 Colrain Vital Statistics recorded in Charlemont
PR21 family record in possession of Bertha B. Morton of Bernardston
PR22 copy of gravestone inscriptions in possession of New England Historical and Genealogical Society
PR23 record of St. James Episcopal Church of Greenfield in possession of New England Historical and Genealogical Society
PR24 family Bible in possession of Mrs. Fred Starkey of Griswoldville
PR25 family Bible in possession of Miss Nellie Pierce of Greenfield
PR26 record from Western Massachusetts History
PR27 record from History of Whately
PR28 record from History of Hawley
PR29 record from Nash Genealogy
PR30 Colrain marriage intentions recorded among those of Buckland published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 75
PR31 record of First Congregational Church (Unitarian) of Deerfield
PR32 records in County Clerk's office, Franklin County
PR33 Bible records published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 84


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